Ulaanbaatar City Football Club was a professional

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club from

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. They played in the Mongolian National Premier League, the highest level of

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History

The club was founded on 19 March 2016 with club owner, the IT Group, purchasing the Mongolia Premier League license of Khangarid City FC which was subsequently dissolved. The IT Group paid 15 million MNT for the license. Ulaanbaatar City won the Premier League championship for the first time in

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, making them eligible to enter the

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for the first time for the 2020 edition. The team snapped

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's four-year championship streak in the process. However, the continental tournament was cancelled due to the

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before Ulaanbaatar City played its first match.

Stadium

Through the 2019 season, Ulaanbaatar City FC shared the

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as a home ground. Ground was broken for the construction of the team's own G-Mobile Arena in late summer of 2017 with an original anticipated completion being in the third quarter of 2018. The stadium will be the fifth venue in the league along with the MFF Centre, Erdenet Stadium, the National Sports Stadium, and

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Domestic history

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International competition

: ''Scores and results list Ulaanbaatar City's goal tally first.''

Managerial history

References

External links

Official websiteMongolian Football Federation profile
{{Mongolian Football League 2016 establishments in Mongolia Association football clubs established in 2016 Football clubs in Ulaanbaatar